Google Wants 2.25 Percent Royalty for Every iPhone Sold

post from Daring Fireball on 09 February 2012 08:03:26 PM. © Daring Fireball

Florian Mueller:

Google’s letter spans over four pages but fails to providesatisfactory answers to those burning questions. With sincereintentions, Google could have put on a page — or a page and ahalf — everything that other companies in the industry, andconsumers using the ubiquitous standards over which Motorola issuing others, need to be reassured about. Look at Apple’s andMicrosoft’s concise and crystal clear statements. Why can’tGoogle provide clarity like that? Because its four pages aren’tmeant to improve anything. Google is basically saying that it willdo exactly what Motorola is already doing now.

Apple can be a dick about patents. Microsoft can be a dick about patents. But of the three, only Google is a hypocrite about patents — against their use as a competitive weapon only until they have their own to use.

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